Bernhard Goldenberg

Bernhard Goldenberg (born March 20, 1872 in Dahlerau , † May 30, 1917 in Essen ) was a German engineer .

Goldenberg was born as the son of the manager of the dye works at the Wülfing and son , Friedrich Goldenberg. Later he also did an internship in mechanical engineering at the Wülfing works. After completing his military service, Goldenberg studied mechanical engineering and electrical engineering at the technical universities in Hanover , Stuttgart and Berlin before becoming a technical advisor to Hugo Stinnes in 1899 . In 1903, after a study trip that had mainly led him to the General Electric and Edison Electric Light Corporation plants in the USA , he became a technical board member of Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG and was responsible for the technical implementation of the rapid expansion of electrification in the Rhineland and in the Ruhr area responsible. The power plants in Essen (1903), Reisholz (1909), Wesel (1912) and the foothills center in Knapsack (April 1914), later named after Goldenberg, were built in quick succession .

RWE share from 1910 with Goldenberg's signature

After his death in 1917, he died after only five days' sick bed with pneumonia, RWE appointed on the proposal of Stinnes, built by him last brown coal - power plant Goldberg plant in Knapsack near Cologne after him.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Dörsam: From the history of the Goldenberg power station of RWE Energie AG , in: Heimat- und Kulturverein Hürth (ed.): Hürther Heimat 71/72 (1993) p. 1 ff.
2. ↑ Dörsam, p. 5

literature

• Adolf Wißner:  Goldenberg, Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 604 ( digitized version ).
• Helmut Maier : Bernhard Goldenberg (1873-1917). In: Wolfhard Weber (ed.) Engineers in the Ruhr area. (= Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien , Volume 17.) Aschendorff, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-402-06753-6 , pp. 149-183.

Web links

• Goldenberg in the city network of Radevormwald